Charting the Future of Making in STEM Education: Broadening Participation

In December the National Science Foundation convened nearly 60 Principal Investigators from projects funded through the Dear Colleague Letter (NSF-086) “Enabling the Future of Making to Catalyze New Approaches in STEM Learning and Innovation.” The NSF EAGER Maker Summit: Charting the Future of Making in STEM Education tasked these projects with exploring topics of interest to NSF and the Maker community.

Organized by the themes listed below, each group spent time synthesizing their collective work and envisioning the future of Making by:

capturing current issues in the Maker movement with respect to education

identifying important research issues and trends

discussing NSF’s investments in the Maker movement

recommending future directions for NSF research and development

Groups then developed a webinar series to serve as report-out from the event, to be shared with the broader Making community. These webinars are scheduled between now and summer, and will be followed by an NSF-hosted webinar describing funding opportunities for Maker-focused research projects.

This project is funded by the National Science Foundation, grant # 0822241, 1449550, 1650648, 1743807, and 1813076. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.